Tom Keegan

Reesing’s impact huge
By Tom Keegan
12:00 a.m., November 7, 2009 Updated 10:24 a.m.
It won’t be until next year, when Todd Reesing is gone, that it will become clear how much of the growth of the Kansas University football program can be attributed to improved recruiting and how much to having a once-in-a-generation quarterback. The answer lies somewhere in the middle.
FSHS seniors different
By Tom Keegan
November 5, 2009
An old-school coach who has his rules and believes in sticking to them with his Free State High soccer teams, Jason Pendleton usually doesn’t keep more than eight seniors on his boys soccer team. In part because there was little normal about the dedication of this senior class, Pendleton kept 11.
Johnson provides suspense
By Tom Keegan
November 4, 2009
Given the presence of softies on a nonconference schedule that features Allen Fieldhouse visitors Central Arkansas, Tennessee Tech and Alcorn State, the crowd will need something other than suspense to stave off daydreaming.
Meier could be answer
By Tom Keegan
November 2, 2009
If Todd Reesing doesn’t show enough in practice to prove he’s fully healthy, then the right choice for QB, obviously, is senior receiver Kerry Meier.
QB playing hurt, and it clearly shows
By Tom Keegan
November 1, 2009
Kansas University football coach Mark Mangino has his reasons for keeping injuries a secret. Knowing a player is hurt can change the way the opposition prepares its game plan. Dirty players might even want to aim for the injured guy’s aching body part.
Opurum may be equalizer
By Tom Keegan
October 29, 2009
College football offenses have come so far since the days of the Ohio State teams of Woody Hayes employing the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust approach. The spread offense makes defenses cover the entire field. Scoring has soared.
Mangino won’t take date bait
By Tom Keegan
October 28, 2009
Fat paychecks make gaining celebrity status in sports all worthwhile, but that doesn’t mean the job is not without drawbacks.
Machine taps NU in North
By Tom Keegan
12:00 a.m., October 26, 2009 Updated 10:19 a.m.
The Sagarin predictor says Nebraska should win the convoluted Big 12 North division.
Crash and burn
Kansas merely mediocre
By Tom Keegan
October 25, 2009
That southbound train to nowhere known as the Big 12 North looked uglier than ever Saturday.
Online comments cowardly
By Tom Keegan
October 24, 2009
Once upon a time, the loudest voices came from the stands in the form of cheers and boos. Maybe they even would direct a few frustrated words at the coach on the way to the parking lot. The coach could put a face to the words.
Wedge knows his stuff
By Tom Keegan
October 22, 2009
Roy Wedge might not look the part, but he is the most popular boy at Lawrence High, could be on the verge of becoming its most accomplished athlete and is among the brainiest students in the building. Did I mention he was voted Homecoming King?
No time to waste
KU offense’s first-quarter production could use a boost
By Tom Keegan
12:00 a.m., October 21, 2009 Updated 09:02 p.m.
Finding something about which to nitpick the Kansas University football team’s offense would be akin to winning the Batmobile in a raffle and griping about a scratch on the door, getting selected by Cindy Crawford in the Dating Game and obsessing on her mole, having Eli Manning under center and complaining his name’s not Peyton.
Kansas will beat Sooners
By Tom Keegan
October 19, 2009
Members of the local Pessimist Breakfast Club — they know who they are — between complaints about the texture of the eggs and the weakness of the coffee undoubtedly are grousing about how, if the Kansas University football team can’t defeat reeling Colorado, then it’s curtains for KU on Saturday against Oklahoma.
Off the unbeaten path
Call costly, but so were 2 turnovers
By Tom Keegan
October 18, 2009
Makeup calls by officials don’t happen in football games. That’s a basketball thing. Or is it?
Robinson has right mind-set
By Tom Keegan
October 16, 2009
The funniest lines usually are delivered with straight face and serious tone, and that’s how Kansas basketball coach Bill Self communicated his best quip Thursday during Media Day.

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